Mayor Philippos of Pempton

Mayor Philippos of Pempton (1051-) was a general of the Byzantine Empire.

Biography
Philippos was born in 1051 to a lowborn Orthodox Greek family, and he became the mayor of the Pempton district of Constantinople. He later served the Byzantine Empire as a general, and on 8 December 1079 he was defeated by the Seljuk Empire at the Battle of Tyana and again at Ancyra on 31 December.